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hard-bitten

[ hahrd-bit-n ]

adjective

  1. tough; stubborn.
  2. conditioned by battle or struggle:

    a hard-bitten army.

  3. grim or severe in judgment or attitude:

    a hard-bitten old teacher.



hard-bitten

adjective

  1. tough and realistic
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hard-bitten1

First recorded in 1775–85
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On the frigid coast of Maine, hard-bitten b***hes turn out to be the battered survivors in a brutal world of tradeoffs.

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Old sceptics, hard-bitten by a quarter of a century of nothingness, were beginning to turn.

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He is hard-bitten by reality in these games, after all.

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A lieutenant had approached, an older man, hard-bitten by years in the desert, with a full beard—save for a large, horizontal scar across his left cheek.

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Dip into the dad-canon iconography of Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series, of which more than 40 hard-bitten installments have been released since the early 1970s?

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